This
August 6th and 9th mark the 66th anniversaries of the most brutal acts of
terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

It
has been spun ad'nauseum that action "saved thousands of American
lives" but all of Washington knew that Japan was ready to surrender and
all they wanted was to "save face" and retain their emperor. But even
after nuking Hiroshima, America targeted and terrorized Nagasaki, when 40,000
were immediately fried by "Fat Man" with the death toll totaling
73,884 and injured 75,000 with several hundred thousand more who have become
diseased and are dying due to nuclear fallout and the blow back of radiation.

"You
cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is
ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not
treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the
visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased to obey the laws of
life."- Lewis Mumford, 1946

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The
universally understood definition of insanity is to persist in the same
behavior while expecting a different outcome.

"Any
nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting
social programs to the neediest, is a nation approaching spiritual death."
-Rev. MLK, Jr.

Budgets
are moral documents for where ever your heart is-is where you lay your money
down.

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We
the people are being taxed to pay for a $3.7 Trillion Budget that Calls for
Military Spending Increases and Deep Cuts to Social Service Programs.

The
Tea Party succeeded to protect the tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% of
Americans and next step is for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
to create a bipartisan plan to reduce deficits by an additional $1.2 trillion
over the next decade.

Some
say Social Security and Medicare are under the gun, yet nobody's talking about
the $185 Billion increase to "modernize" America's Nuclear arsenal
and delivery systems.

At
the World Conference against A- & H- Bombs, in Hiroshima, on August 3,
2011, Dr. Joseph Gerson, Disarmament Coordinator of the American Friend Service
Committee and Director of its Peace and Economic Security Program cited an
article from "Foreign Affairs" that after Obama's initial phase of
"multilateral entrenchment" we now have an Obama Doctrine of
aggressive "counterpunching" that reasserts U.S. power and influence
across the world "when challenged by other countries, reassuring allies,
and signaling resolve to potential rivals"."
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Some
believe that Obama nuclear weapons policy is schizophrenic, but Gerson argues,
"Obama's Prague speech was part of a diplomatic offensive designed to
achieve the nation's preeminent strategic goal: preventing the proliferation of
nuclear weapons and thus reducing the risk of nuclear attacks against the
United States. Following the recommendations of Shultz, Kissinger and others,
Obama acknowledged the Untied States' Article VI NPT abolition obligations and
demonstrated commitments to at least limited disarmament. We had Prague,
Obama's special Security Council session, the Nuclear Security Summit, New
START, and preparations for CTBT ratification.

"The
U.S. is building the nuclear arsenal needed to enforce empire for decades to
come. The deal that secured New START ratification committed Obama to
"a major modernization effort to revitalize' the nation's genocidal
strategic nuclear warheads and its massive arsenal of stockpiled nuclear
weapons.

"The extra $185 billion will pay to expand the nuclear weapons production
infrastructure, train a new generation of nuclear weapons designers and
technicians, extend the murderous "life' of aging nuclear warheads, and
replace so-called "old delivery systems.'" [IBID]

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Unless
we the people put an end to America's 66 years of Nuclear Insanity, the
Pentagon will be modernizing low-yield nuclear weapons that will be deliverable
by new nuclear-capable F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and cruise missiles. Funding
also will remain to replace Trident submarines and pay for a new generation of
nuclear-capable drones and air launched cruise missiles.

With
the need for massive U.S. budget reductions, cutting the Pentagon's funds makes
Common Sense, but President "Nuclear Free World' Obama and the Tea Party
have resurrected policies that led to America's First Great Depression.

Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" (more...)